The Future of Cloud Computing: Opportunities, Challenges and Research Trends

In a cloud computing environment, datacenter consists of number of servers, cooling and power delivery equipment’s that require enormous measure of computational energy to drive complex frameworks. Due to the rising demand of the computation power, datacenter has become the hub for significant increase in the power consumption, heat dissipation and rise in temperature of the servers. Cloud datacenter’s energy consumption has increased tremendously due to increase in the computation requirements of the user workload. Thus, saving energy has become an important concern to address. Researchers proposed different techniques to optimize the energy consumption. In this paper, we focus on different aspects of cloud computing for holistic management of cloud resources in an energy-efficient, reliable and sustainable manner. We recognized different opportunities, identified research challenges and propose possible future research directions for cloud computing.